Okay, when I embeded an onion video link it automatically ran anytime anyone accessed the page. annoying me and I pfesume all others until I had to link it differently. How did you install the pause function?

We are very heavily prejudiced toward YouTube around here. Partly for the reason you described, partly because experience has shown it to be more reliable and performing better than the others. And partly because nearly everything you find elsewhere, has an acceptable counterpart on YouTube (including this item).

Personally, I think a “good” web page is one that you load and then it just SITS there, not doing squat until you tell it to — no movies, no music, no flashy-flashy, nothing more obnoxious than an animated GIF maybe. In fact, if there were fines & penalties involved with doing it another way, I wouldn’t shed a single tear.

Silly me, I saw the onion logo in one corner and totally missed the youtube logo in the other. So using youtube is the “secret” to eliminating the annoying auto run feature.

I agree completely with your second point. I hate having to scramble for a pause or mute button to kill some annoying hamsterdance type web page. I rarely want to see their animations or hear their dramatic music.